I was in wont of some company last night to I dragged myself around Wolfae's, she wasn't in so I went to see my ex instead. She was on her way out going dancing and we tried to encourage the Carthaginian to accompany us but all he ever does is complain bitterly. It was nice to see her stand up for herself once, I am not sure what he was saying as he was out of earshot but from the bottom of the stairs in French I heard her say, "You must not talk to me like that in my own home, this is my house." He still thinks that Carthaginian proto-neo-ultra macho misogynist culture applies here in more liberal Britain.
Alas. We went there and at first it seemed as though we didn't know many people (as lots of people have moved here) but sure enough there were lots of old faces: Cliff the smack-head, Scott the stoner, Danny "Xerox" Broom (so-called because he used to copy others' source-code in college), Nathaniel Baker with his partner (Gemina, another ex - mind you, who hasn't slept with her?...) Marlon, Jason, some jazz-guitarist that I vaguely know, Gideon, Gabby, John the human-rights and patent lawyer, all in all it was nice to socialize a little bit - even if I was still wearing my "vacation togs" (the jumper I was bought for Christmas last year by my sister Elizabeth).
The "music" (if it can be termed that) was just some guy playing records, it was all smoke and lights and much as I enjoyed dancing it was sort of tragic thinking that this is the our culture nowadays. I remember playing music with some very talented people and hearing the cello or the harp or the violin cannot compare with what is effectively just some overpaid bloke who plays CD's and makes it look like he's doing some kind of "work" by drinking every so often. I dread to think what kind of cultural mess we have ended up in.
Still, it was fun, I suppose, in a banal and rather mediocre way.
I am really enjoying reading books 50-56 of Cassius Dio's Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, which is, to me, much more fun than going dancing. Why? Because it is stimulating intellectually.
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